Joe Youngblood, a digital marketer from Dallas, TX, had an unpleasant surprise on Friday the 13th. He was horrified after submitting a new WordPress plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory and it was auto-rejected. The rejection message stated that the plugin could not include WP in the name.

In correspondence with the WordPress Plugin Review team, a team member told Youngblood that they were explicitly instructed to prohibit the…

Gutenberg project lead Matías Ventura announced the Preliminary Road to 5.9 on the Make Core blog earlier today. He covered several big picture items, including several sub-points for each. He also linked to a GitHub issue with specific tasks and tickets that need work.

The post covers notes on block patterns, navigation menus, the theme.json interface (global styles), design tools, and editing flows for block themes. There is a lot of information to take in and enough areas to cover various interests.

The most exciting focus of 5.9 might just be going deeper into responsive…

Looking to build a beautiful, custom website? Say goodbye to hours of endless coding! Making websites just 10 years ago used to be quite the hassle, and most people simply preferred to pay others to do it for them. These days, there are various WordPress page builders that help even non-techies create beautiful, professional-looking websites. Keep reading to learn about some of the best ones.

What Are WordPress Page Builders?

WordPress has become, by far, the platform of choice for web design. According to W3techs, over 41% of the web is…